Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • I think they should make it a daily deal, but not for a week. They should also eat the discount cost, which they apparently aren’t doing, and entirely waive their cut.

    What I think they should do instead of extending the deal, is reset the games launch.

    There is absolutdly no reason Valve couldn’t re-launch the game, along with all the algoritm benefits an unbugged 1.0 launch should have had.

    Also, you seem to have missed that the article says they are contractually obligated to complete their current WIP game. Valve giving them a bunch of money would not give them time to work on further updates for Planet Centauri before then.









  • The difference, like the other commenter already pointed out, is whether you take something across a border, and then leave it there.

    If you take the stuff you brought with you, back when you leave, then you didn’t import it. Import tax is exactly that, a tax on stuff moving from one country, to another. If you bring it in, and then out again, nothing changed.

    As such personal items aren’t subject to this, because the owner is coming and leaving with them. Technically there’s a whole song and dance that should happen when you come and go, but that’s massively inefficient, so customs will just sit there and trust that if you have something to declare, you will.

    And a lot of the time people don’t. Like a phone they bought while abroad. That’s technically something you need to pay for, but it’s not that harshly enforced. It just doesn’t matter compared to the import taxes collected for large commercial shipments.



  • I’m having trouple parsing this comment into a sentence that makes sense. You don’t penny pinch e-waste? What?

    Either way, a lot of people won’t think about this in terms of mere monetary value. Every bit of plastic counts.

    And that’s before considering that not everyone can afford to make trivial purchases. And even if you can afford it, I can’t imagine making purchases without thinking about it beyond whether I have the money. That some people don’t think past that, contributes to tons of problems.

    I could easily afford a more convenient and smaller GaN charger to replace the one I got with my Deck, but it wouldn’t really bring me any new value. Every cent I’d spend on that purchase would be more efficient when used for something else.

    If not for my needs, then someone elses.

    People care. And they should. You bother me, because behind your comments, is the suggesting that we shouldn’t. To you, one less piece of waste is “not worth it”. That’s wrong.


  • So you’re saying buy the US one, throw the charger that comes with it in the trash, then buy another?

    Wasteful.

    I didn’t have a USB PD charger that went above 15W until the one that came with my Deck. I use it as a slightly slightly faster phone charger, too.

    And no, the vast majority of new ones do not go above 20W, either. It just checked. Sure they all work, but your claim that “any” charger hits 60W is complete nonsense.